For all you Canadians who grew up with “The Cat Came Back” and “Happy Feet,” Fred Penner’s Place is a childhood memory that will no… Read More »Child entertainment legend Fred Penner makes a comeback…at Gert’s
This Wednesday, TVMcGill presents the follow-up to last year’s much- talked-about Fokus Film Festival. The screening will feature a variety of student-made short films, ranging… Read More »The Fokus Film Festival: beautiful, sublime, peculiar
I’m a bit of a germaphobe. Like, when I’m talking to someone, and I notice they’re sniffling just a bit too much, I’ll ask them… Read More »The Hipless Boy: You could give it to me
The Oakland trio’s latest album takes what’s familiar and skews it enough to be interesting
Montreal children’s authors and illustrators struggle to transcend linguistic barriers
Movies can enrich childhood novels, but recent efforts are often more interested in showing off special effects
Caitlin Manicom kicks off The Daily’s four part series on cultural tastemakers in the city with a look at the music scene
Paranoid Park explores adolescent alienation – again
Eran Kolirin’s film The Band’s Visit resists cliché with its sincere portrayal of a meeting of cultures in Israel
There’s a song that I like to listen to over and over again. As I write this I’m listening to it on my computer. Some… Read More »The Hipless Boy: Over and over and over
Scottish trangressional novelist Irvine Welsh serves up another round of literary debauchery in five installments
AIDS is “a very human virus, a very human epidemic,” said one doctor in a 2006 PBS documentary on the disease, “It touches right to… Read More »La condition humaine: moving beyond the science of AIDS in The Witnesses
Fokus on student filmmaking With the post-Oscar buzz fading to a drone and end-of-year blockbusters outstaying their welcome in corporate theatres, TVMcGill’s upcoming Fokus Film… Read More »Culture Briefs
The Daily’s Leah Pires opens the gates to our city’s cultural hotspots on the web
City of Men, the loosely-defined sequel to 2002’s City of God, takes us back to Dead End Hill, one of the many slums in Rio… Read More »Favela drama turns melodrama in Paulo Morelli’s City of Men
